Asustek recently launched its new flagship workstation motherboardWS X299 SAGE/10G Compared to last year's WS X299 SAGE, the biggest change is to upgrade two 1GbE Gigabit LAN cards to two 10GbE 10GbE LAN cards.
Asus used on this board Two Intel X550-AT2 (codenamed Sageville) 10 Gigabit LAN Controllers Replaced the previous combination of Intel I210-AT, I219-LM.
To know, Such a 10 Gigabit LAN chip itself will be 80 US dollars, two down is 160 US dollars, equivalent to 1,000 yuan.
Of course, high-end workstation products need performance, cost and price are all small things.
In addition, The new board also upgraded the cooling fins of the CPU VRM power supply section. The replacement of the back baffle was more dense with aluminum fins, which increased the heat dissipation area, and also extended a piece to the back interface to allow better heat output.
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Other specifications remain unchanged, including support for LGA2066 Core X-series processors, eight DDR-4200 memory slots (up to 128GB), and seven PCI-E 3.0 x16 expansion slots (four x16/x16/x16/x16 or seven can be supported Road x16/x8/x8/x8/x8/x8/x8), eight SATA 6Gbps/one U.2/M.2 memory interface, Realtek ALC S1220A 7.1 channel sound card, six USB 3.0 interfaces ), Three USB 3.1 interfaces (one Type-C and two Type-A).
The price, WS X299 SAGE current business offer 5999 yuan, WS X299 SAGE/10G how have 6999.
